Floral-hopped copper-toned meringue-headed bitter retains creamy flow, spry spruce sweetness, slight citric sourness, and mild tea daub as harvest wheat earthiness picks up grassy remnant. Compares favorably to Stone Anniversary Ales.

Traditional English Ale (a.k.a. T.E.A.) initially captivates senses with russet yellow-orange hue, polite lacey trails, honeyed citrus aromatics, and sour fruit template. Slim butterscotch notion grazes smoke-dried malts near nutty finish, but soft watery flow depletes early vigor.

Lingering grain-swayed hop fizz reaches crusty wheat finish for indiscernible pale ale. Overall, heartier than most understated sweet-watered Canadian brews and more refreshing than Bud or Coors (if that’s progress).

Soft water texture, bland seltzer fizz, muted quince-red grape seduction, and pleated orange peel bitterness inform busy, yet light-bodied, spice-hopped Belgian knockoff. Sweet cracked wheat finish accessible to sporty pilsner fans.

Delectable dry-hopped grapefruit-orange frontage picks up candied malt sweetness dotting pine-needled spruce bottom of golden-hazed medium body. Earthen floral finish increases prickly hop bite twofold.

Banal English-styled pale ale with weak maize-wheat confluence and arid hop follow-through has supposedly been ‘a Washington DC tradition since 1873.’ All others need not apply. Brewery defunct: 2006.